Psalms 50 God Rules the World: God Delights More in Obedience Than in Sacrifice

 Psalms 50

God Rules the World: God Delights More in Obedience Than in Sacrifice

1 The mighty God, the Lord, has spoken and called the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined.

3 Our God will come, and will not keep silent; a fire will devour before him, and it will be very tempestuous around him.

4 He will call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

5 Gather my saints together, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

6 And the heavens will declare his righteousness; for God himself is the judge.

7 Hear, my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I, God, your God, will testify against you.

8 I will not rebuke you for your sacrifices or burnt offerings continually before me. 

9 I will not take a calf out of your house, nor a goat out of your pens.

10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

11 I know every bird of the mountains, and every beast of the field is mine.

12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

13 Shall I eat the flesh of bulls? or drink the blood of goats?

14 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High.

15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.

16 But the wicked saith God, What have you to do to recite my statutes, or to take my covenant in your mouth?

17 Since you hate instruction, and cast my words behind you? 

18 When you see a thief, you consent with him, and you are partakers with adulterers.

19 You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

20 You sit and speak against your brother; you speak evil against your mother's son.

21 These things you have done, and I kept silent; you thought it was up to you; but I will reprove you, and I will set it before your eyes in order.

22 Hear this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to deliver.

23 Whoever offers praise as a sacrifice glorifies me; and to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God.